Clocktower accentuates building's renovations

Susan Tuz

Updated 11:51 am, Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Eye catching
The clock tower atop the front entrance to the building at 2 Bank Street in New Milford has been placed, lending a special touch to Bank Street Investments' renovation of the more than 80-year-old structure. This week, the windows had been taken out as the latest step in the process. May 16, 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

Eye catching
The clock tower atop the front entrance to the...

For more than 80 years called home by a pharmacy, the unoccupied building at the north corner of Main and Bank streets in New Milford is now undergoing extensive renovations by Sherman entrepreneur Gary Goldring. May 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

For more than 80 years called home by a pharmacy, the unoccupied...

For more than 80 years called home by a pharmacy, the unoccupied building at the north corner of Main and Bank streets in New Milford is now undergoing extensive renovations by Sherman entrepreneur and owner Gary Goldring. Most notably has been the stripping of siding to reveal the structure's original brick edifice. Goldring already has renovated the building along Bank Street just to the left here of the corner structure, and work is also being done on his recently purchased Main Street property to the right. May 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

For more than 80 years called home by a pharmacy, the unoccupied...

For more than 80 years accopied by a pharmacy, the unoccupied building at the north corner of Main and Bank streets in New Milford is now undergoing extensive renovations, both to its exterior and interior, by Sherman entrepreneur Gary Goldring. May 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

For more than 80 years accopied by a pharmacy, the unoccupied...

Renovations are underway to Sherman entrepreneur Gary Goldring's next-door buildings facing the Village Green in New Miford. May 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

Renovations are underway to Sherman entrepreneur Gary Goldring's...

Renovation work to the unoccupied building at the north corner of Main and Bank streets in New Milford has revealed the longtime pharmacy site's original brick structure. May 2013
Photo: Norm Cummings

Renovation work to the unoccupied building at the north corner of...

An artist's rendering depicts the New Milford village center properties owned by Gary Goldring of Sherman at 2 Bank Street, left, and 27 Main Street as they will look once renovations are completed. May 2013
Courtesy of Bank Street Investments
Photo: Norm Cummings

For more than 80 years, the one-story structure at the north corner of Main and Bank streets in downtown New Milford was home to a pharmacy.

Recently, renovations to the building began by stripping aluminum siding that had been the face of the former Slone Pharmacy at 2 Bank St.

This week, a clocktower had been placed atop the building's front entrance.

The only surprise during early stages of the work was a cinder block, then wood section amid the underlying brick exterior on the Bank Street side of the building.

Along the Main Street side, the original underlying brick of the circa 1930 structure is very much intact.

"The concrete block section is no problem," said Jim Stewart, manager for Bank Street Investments, a company owned by Gary Goldring of Sherman.

"The Bank Street side will be glassed somehow," Mr. Stewart said. "Along the Main Street side, three large panels of glass will be incorporated as vertical dividers."

Along the west interior wall, subway tiles going up the wall's height were uncovered, Stewart said.

"In mosaics at the top of the tiles it says `Fruit, Fish, Meats & Poultry.' We think that may have been an entrance to a market," Mr. Stewart conjectured. There was apparently also a doorway there at one time."

The 4,020-square-foot brick building was first Park Pharmacy during the 1930s and '40s. The original roof is intact and appears to be pressed tin, Stewart added.

Approval for the building's facade upgrade was granted April 9 by the Zoning Commission.